Employers with 50 to 99 full-time workers won’t face a penalty for failing to provide insurance to employees until 2016, according to the Obama administration and Treasury Department officials.

Though most trauma centers (TCs) in Washington use pediatric dose-reduction protocols for head CTs, a wide variation in radiation dose suggests the need for educational efforts and institutional protocols to reduce pediatric radiation dose from head CTs, according to a study published in the February 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

The American College of Radiology (ACR) strongly supports the bicameral, bipartisan legislation to replace the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment formula. The College particularly applauds inclusion of several ACR backed provisions that raise quality of care, make care more efficient and increase transparency in physician payment policy.  

Though imaging facilities maintain ownership rights of the images that they produce, patients have a right to inspect their own images and obtain copies of them, according to an article published online Feb. 5 by the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Optimism ran high in healthcare circles on Thursday as lawmakers announced a deal had been reached in the ongoing saga to repeal the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate formula.

After more than a decade of short-term patches to avoid deep physician payment cuts that would result from the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, lawmakers announced a bipartisan, bicameral deal to repeal the SGR had been reached in committee and will advance to both chambers of Congress.

Installing integrated reading rooms within urologic oncology clinics could improve quality of care, according to a report published online Jan. 31 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Lectures delivered by residents received similar evaluations as lectures delivered by faculty members, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.